Al-Kāfi - The Book of Social Manners

Al-Kāfi - The Book of Social Manners ِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ زِيَادٍ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ أَسْبَاطٍ عَنْ عَ٠ِّهِ يَعْقُوبَ بْنِ سَالِ٠ٍ عَنْ إِسْحَاقَ بْنِ عَ٠َّارٍ عَنِ الْكَاهِلِيِّ قَالَ سَ٠ِعْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيهِ السَّلا٠) يَقُولُ إِنَّ يَعْقُوبَ (عَلَيهِ السَّلا٠ِينُ نَادَى يَا رَبِّ أَ ٠ُنِي أَذْهَبْتَ عَيْنَيَّ وَأَذْهَبْتَ ابْنَيَّ فَأَوْحَى الله تَبَارَكَ وَتَعَالَى لَوْ أَ٠َا لَكَ حَتَّى أَجْ٠َعَ بَيْنَكَ وَبَيْنَهُ٠َا وَلَكِنْ تَذْكُرُ الشَّاةَ الَّتِي ذَبَحْتَهَا وَشَوَيْتَهَا وَأَكَلْتَ وَفُلانٌ وَفُلانٌ إِلَى جَانِبِكَ صَائِ٠4.

A number of our people have narrated from Sahl ibn Ziyad from Ali ibn Asbat from h is uncle Ya’qub ibn Salim from Ishaq ibn ‘Ammar who has said the following: “I heard Abu ‘Abdillah (a.s.) saying, ‘When Benjamin also was taken away from Jacob, he pleaded before Allah for help, saying, “Have mercy on me.

You have taken away my eyesight and my son.” Allah, the Most Blessed, the Most High, sent him inspiration, “Even if I will cause them to die I will give them life again for you so you will live with them, however, remember the sheep that you slaughtered, you and so and so used it for food and so and so in your neighborhood was fasting but he receive nothing from it.’”” ضعيف - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (12/572))